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intervention

intervention : the act or an instance of intervening ;specif : the act or procedure by which a third party becomes a party to a pending proceeding between other parties in order to

discovery

action [a party may obtain of the existence and contents of any insurance agreement "Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 26(b)(2)"] see also privilege, work product doctrine NOTE: Discovery allowed under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26

Certiorari

Statutes, tit. 'Certiorari'). The Statute Law Revision Act of 1888 repeals 13 Geo. 2, c. 18, so that procedure on certiorari in a very great measure depends on Rules of Court alone. For the very numerous cases

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Code

still often designated, though it is now styled by its original name of Code Civil. A Code de Procedure Civile, a Code de Commerce, Code d'Instruction Criminelle, and Code Penal were afterwards compiled and promulgated under Bonaparte's

Summary

judge without the formality of a full proceeding. See PLENARY. The word 'summary' implies a short and quick procedure instead of or, as an alternative to, the more elaborate procedure ordinarily adopted or prescribed for deciding a

Prize Court

to the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court [Jud. Act, 1925, s. 56 (3)]. The procedure and practice in the Prize Court are regulated by the (English) Prize Court Rules, 1914, made under (English)

Mistake or an error apparent on the face of the record

be 'an appeal in disguise', Parsion Devi v. Somitri Devi, (1997) 8 SCC 717 (719). (Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, Order 47, Rule 1 and s. 114

Imprisonment

(English) Summary Jurisdiction (Appeals) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 38); this Act now regulates the procedure on appeal to Quarter Sessions; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Justices.' Important alterations in the law relating to imprisonment have

Incidental

(1967) 1 SCR 882. Incidental, The expression 'Incidental' may mean differently in different contexts while dealing with a procedural law. It may mean proceedings which are procedural in nature but when it is used is relation to

Magistrate

first class, or as the case may be, the Metropolitan Magistrate, exercising jurisdiction under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974) in the area where the aggrieved person resides temporaily or otherwise or the respondent

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